Good morning/afternoon/evening/tomorrow!

My family has been enjoying playing Clue (or Cluedo) as of late. However, my son cannot help but throw the die right off the table. Never mind when we play a game with multiple dice. Therefore, I decided to create a Hill House inspired dice tower. It is definitely on the larger size, as far as dice towers go, but it's well worth the printing time. The material usage has been minimized, as well as the print time. It comes in three parts: the main tower, the roof, and the optional garden with fence to catch the dice. Different features are at different layers to make it easier to paint for MMU, AMS, or simply change the filament at height.

The design has been reworked many times over to get the aesthetic of the Hill House tower without overburdening the 3d printer (or your patience). For example, the “staircase” that the dice roll down is studded every few centimeters to ensure that nothing simply slides down without getting a randomization. The roof slides onto the tower and is held somewhat firmly without glue, and has a locating nub so that it's in the correct orientation. I initially created a model that was essentially hollowed out, but interestingly it used about the same amount of filament with a slightly longer print time, so I opted to have a “solid” top. The minimal infill adds slightly more strength, all while minimizing the plastic and print time. The garden is more for aesthetics, and of course to catch the dice! It is optional, as the dice tower will still work without it. There is a version of the garden with a small riser to make it shorter, reduce filament usage and print time. There are so many more features that add up to the design here today.

And yes, it was designed to work with larger dice as well. I'm looking at you, D&D players.

I hope you enjoy this print as much as we do, and as much as I enjoyed designing it. We printed it with a mix of various colors of PLA+ and Silk PLA.